WNBA Apologizes to Fans Who Were Asked to Cover Pro- and Anti-Trans Shirts. So… They’re Both Allowed?

The WNBA has reversed course after security guards asked fans wearing both pro-trans and anti-trans shirts to cover up the messaging on their apparel at a recent game. At Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream, which took place at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, the “Jam Cam” segment showed fans bearing messages that said both “Protect Trans Kids” and “Trans kids belong in sports,” per The Athletic. Though they were not featured on the “Jam Cam,” two other attendees wore shirts bearing the letters “XX-XY,” a message opposing transgender participation in women’s sports. Fox News identified the two women wearing XX-XY shirts, from the brand XX-XY Athletics, as Georgia locals Kasey Thomason and her daughter Annie. Thomason said that security asked them to take off their shirts because they offended some people in the arena and instead offered them Atlanta Dream “Wellness & Health Night” shirts. The brand’s mission statement says that it is “unfair and dangerous to allow males (XY) to compete in girls and women’s (XX) sports.” Per The Athletic, three fans — two wearing the anti-trans shirts and one with a pro-trans shirt — were asked by security to cover up the messaging.However, after security asked fans to cover up, the WNBA on Monday night apologized and said that they should not have been scolded. “The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night’s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts,” the statement to The Athletic reads. “This should not have happened.”The Atlanta Dream also released a statement about the incident, even though individual teams are not responsible for security. “The Atlanta Dream believes in creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone. Unfortunately, at last night’s game, WNBA security took actions that fell short of that standard,” the statement reads. “At no point was Dream personnel involved in the decisions made